A brilliant road map for discovering history, science, civilization, and the human condition, this engaging record recommends must-read books: those so revealing about times and places that they take the reader beyond day-to-day concerns into a magic realm of knowledge and imagination. From Arthur Koestler’s take on the universe and Barbara Tuchman’s view on 14th-century life to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s impressions of American morality and Robert Fisk’s analysis of the West’s history of intervention in the Middle East, this engaging account is an idiosyncratic and endlessly interesting tour of the world through literature.
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Inventing the Popular in Nineteenth-century France: Printing, Politics, and Poetics
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Ian Mcewan
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Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy
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The Aesthetics of Children’s Poetry: A Study of Children’s Verse in English
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Body Language: Narrating Illness and Disability
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Introducing Electronic Literature
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Ezra Pound and the Career of Modern Criticism: Professional Attention
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Starring Charles Dickens: Multi-media ’boz’ and the Culture of Celebrity
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The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
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Textual Scholarship: An Introduction
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Mixing Memory and Desire: The Great War in Contemporary Commonwealth Fiction
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Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics, 1800-2000
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Literature, Science and Religion in Constantijn Huygens’ Ooghentroost
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Six Metaphysical Poets: A Concise Critical Introduction and Innovative Interdisciplinary Reading of Selected Mystographical Poem
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Adventures in Feminist Dramaturgy: The Road Less Traveled
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Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth After Postmodernism
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Classical Philosophers on Literature: Plato, Aristotle, Longinus
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The Canon
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The Timelessness of Proust
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Chicano Folklore: An A-Z of Beliefs, Rituals, Folktales, and More
$4,005